Challenge

Weeks of unrest and violence in the Ukraine was followed by a short coup as the Ukrainian leader, Viktor Yanukovych, fled his country on 22-Feb-2014. Photos of his lavish palace began to appear in social networks. Unfortunately, news outlets have trouble vetting pictures found on Twitter and Facebook.

Your web browser can identify the picture's timestamp from the copypast.ru server. Viewing this picture's timestamp shows that it was uploaded to copypast.ru on 5-Dec-2012. That is more than a year before the picture was allegedly taken (after 22-Feb-2014).

We cannot determine if the picture was digitally altered due to the multiple resaves. However, we can determine that this picture predates 2014 and is therefore not an authentic representation of Yanukovych's toilet.